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#yeah, a misspent youth story is probably the lowest lift and tracks with the timing and context of scrambled memories #vietnam would require a whole backstory plus would probably have carried a social stigma in bay area and new york journalism circles #animal mauling is just another flavour of submission #attacked in a drug den gives him macho cred because he could say he survived being stabbed in the actual neck and maps onto his real biography so he doesn’t have to lie too much #granted as he rose in the ranks of investigative journalism i wonder if a colleague who was more savvy about say organised crime or political fixers ever said ‘wait a minute, a knife wound would be cleaner and wouldn’t be shaped like an ellipse #and if the colleague were competitive because let’s face it journalism then and now could be cuttroat (pun accidental) they investigate thinking they’ll turn up shady organised crime contacts #then accidentally discovers vampires are real but has nowhere credible to take the information or use it for professional leverage #maybe with daniel becoming hyper-visible with his new vampire book the former colleague is semi-retired and ready to go public #dun dun dun

daniel pretending to be straight for 40 years with a man's bite mark on his neck permanently on display.... EMBARRASSING

oh, daniel 😔 @natandacat was just talking about how much ptsd he’d have from the bite - you tell people a vampire attacked you, maybe you bring a girl home, she starts kissing the bite mark to get you going…suddenly, you’re right back in that room that slants to the north

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#jurassic park #chernobyl #anything else?

M/M/F threesome but it's two guys using the girl as nothing more than an excuse for why this isn't completely gay. she loves it.

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#interestingly freud said men returning from the first world war were less likely to experience psychological distress if they had a physical wound #this was likely because ptsd was stigmatized so having a physical mark to validate the internal wounds meant someone was less likely to experience shame and more likely to get social support #granted, if the wound is from a vampire bite he’d probably have to fabricate a context #vietnam? animal mauling? #would be fascinating to know what story daniel has spun around the scar

daniel pretending to be straight for 40 years with a man's bite mark on his neck permanently on display.... EMBARRASSING

oh, daniel 😔 @natandacat was just talking about how much ptsd he’d have from the bite - you tell people a vampire attacked you, maybe you bring a girl home, she starts kissing the bite mark to get you going…suddenly, you’re right back in that room that slants to the north

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#honestly at this point making guesses based on screenwriting conventions would be as valid as anything else #and could be fun #hm, which archetype is daniel and what could we predict about his character arc based on that? #probably a rejuvenated patriarch (reverse mentor) who gains youth, power and attention again, so has to reckon with what was never healed #other options include the unreliable prophet/cassandra #the mirror/doppengängar #archivist of collapse which would be very eric bogosian #then just plug and play with whatever cryptid photo comes up #out in a carpark at night? #maybe ghostwriting lestat’s memoir and wasn’t on the venue guest list so is cooling his heels and making passive aggressive voice notes

https://www.tumblr.com/retiredkat/788083169316519936/eric-bogosian-aka-daniel-malloy-on-set-of-season-3?source=share

Either Louis' trying to teach Daniel how to get his first kill or they're having a hunt together. Or maybe it's just a chat?

Err.... like, no shade whatsoever nonny, but I do not think you can infer anything from that little video other than Eric being there :)

Also, I think there is a good chance they're leaving Lestat's trailer there, or going to a concert together, or something like that. Because we KNOW already that Daniel will be doing the "documentation"... so it makes sense he would be there, and if Louis is there it also makes sense for them to meet.

But yeah. Vampires also have to hunt :)

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#Could be. I’ll also throw in a vote for Blood and Gold where Armand and Daniel neurodivergently built model villages together in a quaint little cabin in Norway.

Wow I love "Queen of the Damned", the final book in The Vampire Chronicles, in which Armand and Daniel lived happily ever after, forever and ever, amen

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#Freud has so much to say about this

I need to be at this fictitious concert more than anything right now 😂

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#wonder what happened to that ig post #it was legendary

the concept of assad having notifications on for when ebogo posted pics of dildos #ethicalrpf

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#interesting because there’s a long tradition of mystics like st. theresa of avila and bernard of clairvaux who had erotic visions of the divine #and they were recognised by the official church #also archaeological excavations have found material artefacts from mediaeval monastics writing self-insert jesus fanfic and fanart inhabiting christ’s wounds erotically #and it was all pretty queer #guess the difference is that the state in this instance has decided to arbitrate what counts as ‘blasphemy’ #because the uk hasn’t yeeted its aristocracy for a millennium and still relies on soft ‘divine right’ to legitimise its government

Found the poem about a Centurion who fucks Christ's wounds after his crucifixion that Monty Python donated money to defending in court when it inadvertently started a court case regarding the anti blasphemy laws in the United Kingdom (which then later influenced the threats that Monty Python received during Life of Brian)

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#congrats on the Pride award to #Eric Bogosian #and the whole cast #y’all earned it #for some reason, there’s something devastatingly #queer #and appropriate for #IWTV #about an ensemble win #because awards often single out individuals, which is not unmerited #and it’s a team that makes a good performance #and this team’s dynamics are particularly evocative #in any case, well done!

eric is on set and assad liked this so fast. we never lose

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#anyone else suddenly want waffles?

I hope the cast of iwtv are rubbing each other down with maple syrup in honor of Canada Day.

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Ian McKellen  says that all gay people should be trans allies

Sir Ian McKellen urges gay people to be better allies to the transgender community.

The legendary actor and Stonewall co-founder joined It’s a Sin star Olly Alexander for a special LGBT+ History Month talk on TikTok on February 25, Pink News reports. 

Sir Ian said: 

“I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgender people in very much the same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay.

“The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are queer. I quite like being queer actually.

“The problems that transgender people have with the law are not dissimilar from what used to be the case for us, so I think we should all be allies really.“

This is not the first time the actor has stood up to transphobes. 

Speaking to lifestyle magazine Attitude, the veteran star talked about how happy he was about Elliot Page coming out as transgender. 

He felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognizing the struggles that the then-teenage actor could have been facing when they worked together.

The actor talked about why it is important to be honest with oneself.

Top photo from The Talks.

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#vulnerability as a plea for understanding from men who do harm can be an emotional tranference tactic designed to provoke a rescue response and avoid accountability #ominously it works best in people who are abuse survivors #this doesn’t make people irredeemable monsters, moral binaries and blunt instrument accountability also have unintended consequences #and this is why centering survivors and recognizing the signs of performed vulnerability that prompts rescue impulses is important

The most inconvenient truth is that men do misogyny because they get something from it. They get labor from intimate partners, they get social capital in their public circles, they get the benefit of the doubt, they get default respect and promotions and people listening to them and people afraid of them.

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#without looking, how many mr. rogers slash fanfics would you guess are on ao3? #i’m going to say 31 #any other guesses?

ya’ll were really gonna let me live my life in ignorance thinking mr. rogers was straight???

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#aww he’s got the cutest widdle limp wrist

@demonpoppyseed I have a video of that moment!

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#this one read tristan taormino’s “opening up” as counterinsurgency

Daniel Molloy: causing problems with vampires since 1973

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#hold my shirt

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#this author is genuinely skilled #rec

Fellow old man rpf enjoyers, come this way